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The United Nations and its humanitarian partners are supporting the Philippine Government to assess damage caused by Typhoon Haiyan (known locally as Yolanda). The super typhoon made landfall on the eastern coast of the Philippines at 4.30 a.m. local time (8 November) and is currently making its way across...

The remote eastern province of Badakhshan is often referred to as Afghanistan’s natural disaster capital. Crammed between China, Pakistan and Tajikistan, the Province takes in the Hindu Kush and Pamir mountain ranges, along with a mixed terrain of deserts, grasslands, savannahs, scrub and forests....

With each rainy season in Senegal come reports of large-scale flooding and equally large-scale damage. This year is no different, with above average rains triggering damaging floods that are currently affecting an estimated 100,000 people. Nearly the entire south-western part of the country has been...

OCHA and its humanitarian partners have completed a disaster simulation across Tonga, Samoa and Fiji – the first time that such an exercise has involved multiple countries in the Pacific. The exercise is part of continuing efforts to strengthen community-, country- and regional-level emergency...

Humanitarian organizations in Pakistan are on high alert following flash floods that have affected tens of thousands of people across the country. However, preparedness efforts are being hindered by a lack of funding.
The floods, triggered by the first spell of Pakistan’s annual monsoon rains, have...